Position: Graduate Student
School and/or Centres: School of Sociology
Email: kaima.negishi@anu.edu.au
Location: HA2191, Haydon Allen Building (22)
Thesis topic: “Modulating the face for control: Understanding smiling, comfort and security in Japanese Railway Stations”
Kaima's PhD project will explore the affective event of smiling in the context of contemporary Japanese society. By looking into the mechanism of late-capitalist affective economy, this project aims to grasp how modern technologies are intervening into our everyday sense of selves.
- Affective labour
- Biopolitics
- Mobilities
- Social theory
Kaima has had an article published in the peer reviewed journal Transformations in a special issue on Hyperaesthetic Culture. Both reviewers were extremely impressed with the paper and it was accepted subject to very minor revisions. He has also been invited to write a full paper for a special issue of Surveillance and Society. Kaima presented a paper at the Institute of Australian Geographers Annual Conference at Macquarie University in July this year in a session on Engineering Spaces of Affect.
Negishi, K. (2012) ‘Smiling in the Post-Fordist “Affective” Economy”’, Transformations, Issue No. 22, URL: http://www.transformationsjournal.org/journal/issue_22/article_02.shtml.